Dear TWL Staff

[Money]

Slipped> What do you call a black guy flying a plane?
diff> suicide
Slipped> A pilot, you racist fuck



freakmonge> bot automatically does a lagcheck on everyone
AceSpades> Why does it
i m weasel> sounds like racism'
freakmonge> you're right..it only checks black ppl and fags
AceSpades> Checks you twice then weasel

[Izor]

neth 4 twl head op, lets make this shit fun again

No. You fucked my squad over with your personal vendetta against me and in general didnt care about the league...only LB.

This season's staff is not really doing poorly. I think you guys need to look back at this season and look at every decision staff has made. When all your emotions are done and you get over the fact that you didnt win a spaceship league this time around (or maybe you did), look at all the appeals that were generated this season and look at all the whining that went down. The players themselves put a lot of stress on the people trying to run the league on meaningless regular season games which just set the pace for pascone to whine about that one game at the end of the season with sake and syne to appeal for having someone doublesquad to play TWL and me to make up some crap for semis. Oh, and Pirates to get an extra round against Quake for something that was their own damn fault even though they were like -10 when it happened. I think the perception that they are comes from the enormous amount of whining that 'we' have done (and I put that in quotations because I havent generated any actual drama this year for once). In the past I have whined over a couple things mainly because 1) We werent given a chance to play or 2) the game actually mattered toward playoffs. Just take a look back at some of the unimportant crying this year. 'you guys suck because now I have to deal with having 2 losses and still make playoffs but am the 4 seed instead of 3 seed all because of a lame sub!!!!' 'Why am I banned for spamming someone in the middle of a game!!?!??!' The list goes on. Just keep it in mind for the future as captains, but it would appear that the maturity level on this game has gone down a lot over the last few years that I remember

[Nethila]

No. You fucked my squad over with your personal vendetta against me and in general didnt care about the league...only LB.

that line just contradicted itself... =/ The only person i really killed during my run was some dude that I banned for life for TWD, whats his name again?

if i remember correctly, during my 2 seasons as head op, i did not play in TWL so i could concentrate more on running the league. The memories of running 3 clients to host 3 games at once... u lazy hosts =/

[pascone]

Pascone, you continually allow delectable to evade ban and join Sake, just recently was he removed from Sake roster on TWD for a reason on Waffler, and will soon thereafter, be banned from play once cool koen gets his facts straight. Also, I talked with Pure_Luck today and he denied the rumors you spread to me that delectable was to be unbanned next week, gg.

Furthermore, you're a cheat, a liar, and a nutless monkey could do a better job as head TWL op and captain than you. You're horrible.

you continue to make posts about things you know nothing about, nice work though. i never said delectable was going to be unbanned tomorrow, in a week, or ever.

you can't even be a captain of a squad, so what term do we use to describe you?

[tragiK]

you can't even be a captain of a squad, so what term do we use to describe you?

ROBIN HOOD

[H.M.S. Stargazer]

ROBIN HOOD

Prince John perhaps?

[royCE]

you continue to make posts about things you know nothing about, nice work though. i never said delectable was going to be unbanned tomorrow, in a week, or ever.

you can't even be a captain of a squad, so what term do we use to describe you?

your lying. i remember you saying dele was gonna be unbanned for the playoffs.

too bad sake didnt make it over dynasty and sweet

[pascone]

your lying. i remember you saying dele was gonna be unbanned for the playoffs.

too bad sake didnt make it over dynasty and sweet

at the time my basis for that was that the ban expired on 2-10-09. evidently, it didn't and i was wrong.

indeed, we all didn't play on squads that have players with multiple twl rings.

[Eugene]

at least stargazer doesn't have to pay his staff members to stay staff.....

AMIRITE, OR AMIRITE?

[Money]

hesrite

[PaulOakenfold]

Dear TWL staff,

Disregarding the scheduling difficulties, thanks for giving your time and knowledge to keep this ball running. Ignore these types of threads in the future and focus on objective oriented tasks.

You've been great,
PaulOakenfold

[H.M.S. Stargazer]

at least stargazer doesn't have to pay his staff members to stay staff.....

AMIRITE, OR AMIRITE?

But am I paying the players to play TW? Re: 100 Event.

[ignite ignite]

Dear TWL staff,

Disregarding the scheduling difficulties, thanks for giving your time and knowledge to keep this ball running. Ignore these types of threads in the future and focus on objective oriented tasks.

You've been great,
PaulOakenfold

Good job, keep encouraging and understaffed, undertrained, and underprepared TWL staff. That kind of celebration of mediocrity is why Thunder didn't make it to the TWLB finals.

[Jones]

As far as TWL staff or staff in general in this zone are concerned I suggest they should simply devote more people into the roles of Operationals, ie getting 1 head op for each league, someone experienced, someone who is willing to train and pass on knowledge on TWL referees, if you don't have enough people, then ask squadcaptains for help. The rules have been around forever and there are still too many loopholes, you'd think they would start making sense after this many seasons.

With that said, I am informing you that I am not here to bash anyone, I simply just hope you will look back on this season as a learning experience. Honestly I am not even sure what I could argue about since I haven't dedicated my free time in monitoring games whole sunday except for my own.

The biggest issues however, and probably everyone can agree on is the website and the bots. The bots, although they have been improved since last time I brought it up when we had a 1 year off-season because staff kept asking: "dont you want a fully functional bot/page where every statistical data is recorded?" several years later it's still not done properly.

The website is the biggest dissapointment this season though, it is still incredibly awkward to navigate with, there arent enough links that can take me to my squads games or my own statistics from Sweet roster. I will simply label the site as half-way done, and we're already having finals this week.

Again, don't take this the wrong way, Rii and others, I am very grateful for this and I would lend a hand in the development if my PHP skills weren't so incredibly close to zero.

The fact still remains though, this season was done half-assedly, there is alot of room for improvements. Staff really ought to take a look at their priorities for this zone, you finally got elim ranks back huh, took you a good amount of time too. Perhaps you should focus on the quality of TWL, by making sure everything works during the game, subbing and 30 minute mark which was already a problem a year ago in TWLJ and what not. Focus on core-products like Elim, TWD, TWEL, development of a 2v2 league, dont just host a million useless events all the time.

As a side note, the 30 minute duel between Apok and Burnt? (wasnt watching) in my opinion it is a fault in the zone's settings if it can drag like that, nothing else.

[kthx]

The biggest problem with TWL is the fact that there are a few TWL ops, most of which have no clue about the league they are trying to run, haven't played in the ship in games they are trying to host, and are otherwise clueless about the importance of TWL as seen with the huge amount of people actually considering allowing Distension to be hosted as a precursor to TWL even with the (still ongoing) large amount of crashes it causes. The solution to this problem doesn't have to do with finding better hosts and twl ops though honestly, because the best option for twl ops unfortunately are staffers who actually play the leagues and have for several years.

What needs to happen is for a completely new system of TWL management that adds more glamor and prestige to being a captain of a squad that is in TWL. Basically instead of having a few ops decide appeals or pass judgement on games there should be a committee of squad captains, perhaps two from each squad that is participating in TWL that decides on what happens during the league. So if there are 8 squads playing TWLD, and there are two squads involved in an appeal than that means there are 12 other captains who would make the decision instead of (no offense) Stargazer, Mirrorrim, and Pure_Luck (who actually has taken a pretty active approach to his position this year).

I don't think that the calls would be any more biased than they are right now with staff making decisions, I don't see how the leagues could really get much worse, and if things turn out terrible then the captains themselves deserve and receive the blame for letting things get that way instead of staff. So basically put the pressure on the people who are sitting here whining about the league being bad by making them the true "ops" for TWL.

As far as the people hosting the games it isn't always their fault that they don't know anything about the league they are hosting in, TWL needs hosts and these are the people willing to spend their time doing it. However it isn't always good for the game itself when they don't know about the league they are hosting, so basically my idea would be to once again use the captains as the eyes and ears for the host himself, allow two captains who have the time and are willing to watch the game to sit on on a seperate frequency with the host and let him know if something is fishy, and even help explain certain things to him should the need arise. It is only through captain interaction with staff that a great TWL season will happen, because basically without each other the league is useless.


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On a side note, I would like every squad that is considered good to pick up a few rookies this season, for as much as we cry about lack of competition we surely aren't doing much to fucking help it, were just sitting with our thumbs up our asses while the game dies and we aren't replacing the good players who leave with any fresh players. Quicksand has recruited a few mediocre warbirds whom we think have talent and get along with our players, and I think every other squad should also. It is just really time that we stop bitching and moaning with the way the zone is heading because it isn't all staffs fault, we have all become so egotistical that we refuse to play with anyone who can't go even or positive every game when we ourselves were there at one point and someone gave us a chance. So heres our chance, if we have 25 squads in TWL next season, lets bring 75 new players with us, even if they don't play in TWL they will get better throughout the season.